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Yesterday morning, members of the Jails Action Coalition (JAC), a newly formed grassroots activist group that opposes the expansion of solitary confinement and other abuses in New York City’s jails, held a demonstration outside a meeting of the city’s Board of Corrections. Chanting, “We demand prisoners’ rights, together we stand, together we fight!” and “Jobs and education, not incarceration!” protesters […]

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Demonstrators Protest Solitary Confinement and Brutality in New York City’s Jails

“New York’s Black Sites”: New Article About Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

Shutting Down a Supermax: An Interview With Alan Mills of the Uptown People’s Law Center

Federal Prisons Chief Sends Memo Urging Prisoners Not to Kill Themselves

Political or Gang Activity? “New Afrikan” Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

Tamms Supermax Prison Closure Temporarily Halted

Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Supermax Suicide Lawsuit

NYCLU Files Suit Challenging Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

New Mexico Man Gets $15.5 Million for His Two-Year Ordeal in Solitary

New York City Officials and Advocates Push for Change to the “Culture of Brutality” on Rikers Island

Reports Condemn Healthcare and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons

Federal Judge Orders Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Released After 43 Years in Solitary

Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons?

Southern Injustice: 37 Years in Solitary

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Rastafarians Spend a Decade in Solitary for Refusing Haircuts

Solitary Confinement Is Not Healthy for Elephants (or Humans)

Inmate Allegedly Placed in Solitary for Refusing to Bribe Guards

California Lawsuit Charges Race-Based Lockdown

Solitary Deaths in Immigrant Detention Centers

NY Prison System Opens Unit for Mentally Ill

ACLU Says Teen Tortured at Montana Prison

The End of Tamms Supermax

Thirty Days in Solitary

Advisers to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hold Briefing on Juvenile Solitary Confinement in New York

Settlement to Improve Arizona’s Prison Health Care, Limit Use of Solitary Confinement

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy: “Solitary Confinement Literally Drives Men Mad”

Law Aimed at Silencing People Convicted of Crimes Is Declared Unconstitutional